Ashley Bell Quotes

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

When I get into the shoes of any character, I work on getting the perfect look.